276. Will bond market vigilantes see off Starmer’s rivals?
The Rest Is Money
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The visionary impact of Trump's war is on every central bank's mind. |
| 0:07.3 | I think the likelihood is that interest rates will go up a bit at some point. |
| 0:11.4 | The Bank of England is split. |
| 0:13.6 | The Greens obviously are expected to do well in these elections. |
| 0:17.8 | The view is because the Green Party want to increase taxes and public spending, |
| 0:21.8 | the bond market will be like, well, hang on a minute. How are they going to pay for all this? |
| 0:24.8 | How are they going to do all this? A way will be found to get Stama out. If they lose significant |
| 0:29.7 | numbers of seats to the Greens, the logic to fight back will be to move the government to the left. |
| 0:36.9 | We're delighted to say that this year the rest is money |
| 0:39.6 | is being powered by Octopus Energy. So Greg is back with us. Greg, I've got another question for you. |
| 0:45.7 | So in terms of energy companies, are we just back to the big six? You know what? We've only got like |
| 0:50.6 | six or so major supermarket chains. No one worries about that because they invest ferociously in competition. |
| 0:57.9 | You've got differentiation. |
| 0:59.4 | You know, we thought the market was stable, then Alden Little turned up. |
| 1:02.7 | Competition is not about reinventing the souk with dozens of identicate companies. |
| 1:09.4 | It's about companies having different approaches to looking after customers |
| 1:13.0 | and competing ferociously on that. Energy could well be going that direction. |
| 1:17.3 | Cheers, Greg. And thank you for powering this episode of The Rest Is Money. |
| 1:24.6 | This episode is brought to you by Adobe Acrobat Studio. Now, if I know anything about money and business, |
| 1:31.0 | it's that there is a lot of waffle. You know, there's been countless times in my career |
| 1:35.9 | when I've had to spend endless hours going through loads of information to try and get to the story. |
| 1:44.2 | Now, a lot of people have roles that involve working through reams of information and data. |
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